Anyone tried kombucha?

Question

I just tired kombucha for the first time last weekend and I think I'm a little addicted already. Does anyone else have a kombucha story? Do any of you make your own? I'm thinking of making my own and would love any tips you may have.

Answer 1

You can make it yourself -we do. It's very easy, inexpensive and simple to make. Made with tea, sugar (or honey), and of course the Kombucha fungus, it will take between 1-2 weeks before your first batch is ready to drink.

My son suffers from severe allergies to humidity and mites, and has an open stomach. Because of this he used to get bronchitis at LEAST every other month. And every night after he went to sleep he'd start coughing so much that he'd wake up and throw up. Then he'd spend the next hour coughing before he could go back to sleep. He was taking allergy medications, medicine to help empty his stomach faster, he had two different inhalers, cough medication - and he's not even 5 yet!

Then at the end of January my husband started giving our son Kombucha tea twice a day. The same day that we started giving it to my son, my son hasn't coughed at all by night, he hasn't thrown up, and he hasn't had bronchitis. He doesn't need to use his inhalers or his allergy medications anymore either.

To me, this truly is a miracle drink! I wrote a blog on it that you are welcome to read: http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-5ksVjU47eqs_12qDwPwirmLXqHA-?cq=1&p=1797

Answer 2

I make my own. I'd be happy to send you a SCOBY. I seem to have a particularly prolific scoby.

It is yummy!

Don't buy scoby online unless they're shipping it to you in glass. Plastic, ziplock baggies and the like damage the scoby.

(SCOBY - Symbiotic Culture Of Bacteria and Yeast)

You'll find cuts heal faster, your skin is more radiant. Hair is shiny. Takes time for old hair to grow out and the new Kombucha enriched hair to show up.

I got a couple of those "sun tea" jars. Then you just drain the tea out of the bottom and never have to touch the scoby.

Your scoby will grow to fill the top of the jar. What ever size jar you use, your scoby will get that big. The idea is to seal off the tea. That creates the mild carbination. I tried using a large pyrex bowl which made a huge pizza size scoby.